Martin's Moths

  I have always enjoyed the oddities of housing dozy moths in eggboxes, which rather resemble Eton Fives courts in their collection of pecul...

  Inspecting the moth trap has recently become slightly perilous as we have a nest of hornets in the house eaves and they have taken to comi...

I was saying only on Tuesday that completely new moths here are a rare occurrence, after 20 years of light-trapping. Now I have had my secon...

  There are so many campaigns these days, given the lamentable state of the world, that you may not have the energy to join a new one. But i...

  A new moth for me has come calling: the Cypress Pug which shares both the appearance and the taste in caterpillar foodplant of the Cypress...

  There's a yellowy-orangey theme to this post, triggered by finding the lovely fresh Brimstone moth above in a pose which shows how the...